Quilting Books
   Includes applique and patchwork

Number 5 in the Series. Featuring the wonderful fabrics designed by Kaffe Fassett, this book has 21 projects to suit all skill levels. Designers include Roberta Horton, Pauline Smith, Liza Prior Lucy and Kaffe Fassett. Offering inspiration as well as instruction, projects are accompanied by charts and diagrams. All designs use the extensive range of Kaffe Fassett fabrics creating a rich and diverse mix to suit all styles and skill levels.

Take inspiration from nature, then see how to use basic design elements—colour, shape, and texture—to translate the world around you into amazing works of quilted art.

Six projects demonstrate an array of innovative quilting techniques using such mediums as cheesecloth, paint, and watercolour pencils. Plus, a dazzling colour gallery of quilts is sure to add a dose of creative inspiration.

The beauty of log cabin patchwork sewing projects lies in their rich use of colour, innumerable options for positioning the blocks, and a huge range of designs. Better yet, for beginners, log cabins are easy to make. These fabulous and varied patchwork pieces extend the craft to its utmost, and adapt traditional patterns and methods to produce diamonds, triangles, octagons, and hexagons alongside classic squares.

Each technique in this book is illustrated with diagrams and detailed examples, so newcomers will feel confident completing the most basic projects, while those with more experience can have fun exploring their creativity and extending their skills. The attractive designs and finishing procedures are diverse: the circle effect, random rose, pineapple spiral, courthouse steps, and Greek key pattern, chevron and arrowhead borders, binding and piping, mitred and double-mitred borders, and gathered and pleated frills.

Along with quilts, use these patchwork designs on cushions, curtains, tablecloths, potholders, and many other useful and decorative items.

More than 400 images of quilts from the Journal Quilt Project exploring a range of media, techniques, and subject matter.

In 2003 Karey Patterson Bresenhan, president of Quilts Inc, organised the first ever Journal Quilt Project—one of the most popular exhibits ever shown at the International Quilt Festivals. Since then, hundreds of artists from around the world have participated in the Journal Quilt Project every year, making small 20cm x 29cm quilts every month to explore new techniques, express fresh ideas, and experiment with the myriad of resources available to quilters today. Whether quilters officially participated in the Journal Quilt Project or not, thousands of quilters, new and seasoned, have been inspired by the Project and are using page-sized quilts as visual journals for self-expression and discovery.

As a sequel to her bestselling Contemporary Quilts, award-winning textile artist Sandra Meech delivers another superlative guide for anyone who has ever wanted innovative ideas in quilting. Meech's own work reflects her fascination with the Arctic landscape, but she shows how any needleworker can become an artist, using sketchbooks and journals, and taking inspiration from both commonplace and exotic sources as well as art, architecture, and textiles.

The photos of finished projects provide fuel for creativity, the expert instructions show how to turn ideas into reality, and the array of fabulous techniques (surface embellishment, mixed-media, and three-dimensional looks) match the originality of design. Because these quilts deserve to be displayed, tips are provided on how best to showcase the finished item.

In her first book, the irrepressible Robbi, known for her award-winning art quilts as well as her side-splitting first- person columns in Quilting Arts magazine, shares her techniques for designing, fusing, and finishing quilts so you too can create fibre masterpieces without an arts degree or even knowing how to draw.

The full-colour book features many of Robbi's popular quilts and patterns as well as chapters on: fused applique process (save your machine for the quilting); free-motion quilting techniques (so comprehensive it could be a separate book); innovative finishing techniques; dyeing your own fabrics.

Presented on these exquisite pages are the most beautiful, most innovative quilts being designed today, all selected from the world-class 14th Biennial Quilt National Exhibition. For almost 30 years, the exposition - which travels throughout America - has served as a showcase for contemporary quilt artists who expand the boundaries of the craft.

Large, spectacular colour photographs, and the artists' personal commentary, will fill home quilters with inspiration over and over again. All the pieces are genuine artworks meant for display rather than practical use, and they set the standard and serve as the model for other art quilts.

From computer-generated images to abstract patterns to human figures, these designs are state of the art.

From large travel bags to small roll-style purses, these 20 patterns include all the carry-all styles a quilter could desire. They range from traditional to shabby chic, from retro to contemporary. Most important, each one showcases the exquisite workmanship and close attention to detail that are the hallmarks of designer and best-selling author Mary Jo Hiney. She offers instruction on how to make pockets, both inside and out; how to put in zippers; how to attach handles; and how to add liners and bindings for the perfect finish. Among the standouts: a brocade bag to hold knitting supplies, a 60s-style piecework bucket bag, a clutch with traditional quilt block applique, and a small wool dachshund-shaped purse that uses Mary Jo's signature quiltagami technique.

See Also:

• Handmade Embroidered Bags
• Never Too Many Handbags - A Guide to Creating Your Own Original Handbag Using Freeform Knitting & Crochet

This book features 24 quick and easy projects with full-size applique patterns that will appeal to the men in your life. You are sure to find a project that is guaranteed to satisfy.

Popular quilting expert Ricky Tims presents an imaginative, new piecing technique that quilters will adore!

Convergence quilts feature two or more fabrics cut into strips, sewn together, then cut and pieced again. Nothing could be simpler - or more magical. Ricky offers lots of creative guidelines but no hard-and-fast rules, so every convergence quilt is a unique work of art.

The authors take readers on a tour of the winemaking and quiltmaking regions of America, featuring fifteen nature-inspired quilt projects that can be easily recreated at home.